gassing

[gas-ing]

noun

1. an affecting, overcoming, or poisoning with gas or fumes.

2. the act of a person or thing that gasses.

3. a process by which something is gassed, gas, as in fumigation.

4. the evolution of gases during electrolysis.

gassing

/ ˈɡæsɪŋ /

noun

1. the act or process of supplying or treating with gas

2. the affecting or poisoning of persons with gas or fumes

3. the evolution of a gas, esp in electrolysis

Word History and Origins

Origin of gassing¹

gas + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

It hits a point where you have a thousand people loving you, but those two people not — you’re like, “Wait, are they the ones telling me the truth? Is everyone else just gassing me up?”

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“I saw a brother who showed me his scar that he’d received from from a projectile, a rubber bullet. The first thing they did was they started gassing folks,” Jn-Marie said.

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“Everyone is gassing each other up about how fabulous they look,” she says.

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Later, she takes revenge on her entire clan — whom she considers complicit in keeping her committed at Arkham — by gassing them, strutting around her family’s mansion in a yellow gown and a gas mask.

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In addition, the method used to kill the infected chickens — carbon dioxide gassing — required that workers move “from chicken to chicken” increasing their “degree of interaction with each potentially infected bird.”

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